Tutorial: iOS-to-Workstation Editing Workflow with Adobe Premiere Clip and Premiere Pro

Editing Workflow

The basic editing flow is much the same as with any editor. You trim the heads and the tails of your clips. You can drag the purple handles on the left and right (Figure 12, below), or you can play the video and then split the video at the playhead (Figure 13, below Figure 12) and delete the footage you don’t want (Figure 14, below Figure 13).

Figure 12. Drag the purple handles to trim your clip.

Figure 13. Or Split the video…

Figure 14. And delete the part you don’t want.

On an iPad, using the purple handles should work well. With the smaller screen on an iPhone, you won’t be able to use them as effectively.

One thing you’ll notice in the top panel shown in Figure 8 is a little spinning dial. After you load the media into the project Adobe Premiere Clip, starts uploading it into the Creative Cloud. That uploading that has to happen before you can edit it on your workstation. If you’ve got a fast connection, you’ll have a nice head start when it comes time to transfer the project.

Sending the Project to Adobe Premiere Pro

For this project, we’ll finish our work in Premiere Clip by adding the fade in and fade to black, and we’ll be ready to send this to Premiere Pro. Access the output options by tapping the second button from the right in the top-of-the-screen panel shown in Figure 8.

Figure 15 (below) shows your output options. You can Publish & Share your video. This publishes the video up to the Creative Cloud and gives you a link you can share with other people. Other options include saving the edited video to the Camera Roll on your iOS device. Via More Options you can also publish to YouTube or save the video without publishing it to the Creative Cloud.

Figure 15. Output options in Premiere Clip

Or you can click Edit in Premiere Pro to transfer the project to your workstation to continue editing in a more advanced NLE. But you’re going to have to wait until the dial stops spinning and the upload is finished until you can actually do that (Figure 16, below).

Figure 16. You’ll see this screen if your footage isn’t done uploading to the Creative Cloud.

You can track the upload in the Sync Status screen shown in Figure 17 (below) by tapping the spinning dial.

Figure 17. Our project is 64% synced to the Creative Cloud.

When the clip is synced, you can return to the previous screen and transfer the project to Premiere Pro (Figure 18, below). Premiere Clip will then send your project to the Creative Cloud, from which it will be downloaded to your workstation. Now you can exit Adobe Premiere Clip and log into your workstation to pick up the project in Premiere Pro.

Figure 18. Sending the project